Editorial With Sujit Nair | One Nation, One Election, One Party??? | Modi | Rahul Gandhi

[00:00:00] Namaskar, Welcome to another episode of Editorial. One Nation, One Election is what Mr. Narendra

[00:00:08] Modi says he wants.

[00:00:11] Q Rathneka different elections when the country is won? This is what he asks. Let us understand

[00:00:18] this concept of one nation, one election. Let us understand this concept of whether

[00:00:24] it is going to be helpful for us as citizens of this country or not. Let us understand

[00:00:29] that. Let us kind of clinically study it and then you decide whether it is good for us

[00:00:35] or not. Let us get right to the show.

[00:00:42] First starters, the first thing what we need to understand is India used to practice one

[00:00:49] nation, one election. Our first general election happened in 1951 and ended in 1952.

[00:01:01] So, you know a lot of people who say that Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was supposed to be the

[00:01:06] Prime Minister and then Gandhi got him out and made Nairu Prime Minister and all that.

[00:01:12] You see, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel passed away in 1950 and our first general election

[00:01:17] was in 1951-52 and that election saw Pandit Javaharlal Nairu as our first Prime Minister.

[00:01:28] Anyway, okay. So the first Prime Minister, Pandit Javaharlal Nairu 1951-52 from 1951-52

[00:01:38] to 1967 that is the fourth Lok Sabha we saw one nation, one election.

[00:01:49] Okay, while I say that let me also add that you see as early as July 1959, July 1959, Prime

[00:02:00] Minister Javaharlal Nairu wanted to dismiss the Kerala State government headed by EMS

[00:02:06] Nambudri Patel. He wanted to dismiss the first ever elected communist government by the way,

[00:02:11] that was the first ever elected communist government in the world. He wanted to dismiss

[00:02:15] that in 1959 but that being said technically speaking let us simplify matters like we normally do.

[00:02:22] Till 1967 India saw one nation, one election. 1967 ke baat that is 1968-1969 we saw some

[00:02:35] assemblies being dissolved, state assemblies being dissolved and therefore there were

[00:02:40] the concept of one nation, one election got completely decoupled.

[00:02:49] Now there is also an instance, there is also an instance in December of 1970 where the then

[00:02:56] Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi had called for dissolution of the parliament in 1970 and called

[00:03:04] for a premature election in 1971, the election which was supposed to happen in 1972. She called

[00:03:12] for a premature election in 1971 and this absolutely decoupled the central election,

[00:03:23] Lok Sabha election with the assembly elections. This is the story. So long and short till 67

[00:03:30] it was all happening one nation, one election after 67-68-69 onwards the elections

[00:03:38] got decoupled. So you had assembly elections separately, you had central elections, Lok Sabha

[00:03:43] elections separately, TKNA okay. I also spoke to you about right in 1959 when Pandit Javala

[00:03:52] Nehru wanted to sack the communist government of Kerala and all of that. So this is history.

[00:03:57] Now Narendra Modi since 2014, since 2014 was always advocating this concept of one nation,

[00:04:07] one election.

[00:04:50] Now let us understand some advantages and disadvantages of one nation, one election.

[00:04:59] Because one nation, one election you can in one shot say that no, no it is bad for the country or

[00:05:05] good for the country. I think that is not the way one should view it. If you have to do a SWAT

[00:05:11] analysis. So let me look both, let us look at the strength and weaknesses of having one nation,

[00:05:16] one election and like I told you later on you can decide what is right and what is wrong.

[00:05:21] You see when you have multiple elections almost one or two or three elections per year,

[00:05:27] year after year. So the attention of the government gets diverted all the five years in elections,

[00:05:35] bad that is bad. Secondly every year election,

[00:05:42] lot of money you see if you do it all together the expenses comes down drastically

[00:05:50] but every year you set up your whatever EVM machine you set up your infrastructure

[00:05:56] you set up your government officers you pay them you get them there travel stay food infrastructure

[00:06:04] etc, etc, etc. It goes from the tax payers money. So a lot of money can be saved if the election

[00:06:11] is done in one shot. Thirdly political corruption or every election what do you think happens?

[00:06:22] Humongous amount of corruption do you think they actually spend the candidates actually spend

[00:06:26] the kind of money that election commission year marks is that what they do you think? So a huge

[00:06:32] amount of money is spent on elections huge amount of money and there is huge amount of corruption

[00:06:38] that happens during elections this can be curbed one shot may khatam ho jayega this can be curbed.

[00:06:44] So corruption is another issue. The fourth issue is you see the entire voting process

[00:06:52] the voting process can be simplified. Voting process can be simplified because you have state

[00:06:59] elections you have central elections. Now I will tell you how this one nation one election happens.

[00:07:08] One nation one election money you have two phases. Phase one is where you have the Lok Sabha

[00:07:14] election and the assembly elections together and phase two is when you have panchayat election

[00:07:19] municipality election within 100 days of the of your state stroke central election. So this is how

[00:07:26] in two phases you have one nation one election. So aek salme sab ho ye ho jayega and the fact

[00:07:33] remains that you have all the elections that happens simultaneously. This is what one state

[00:07:39] one election means. So the fact remains that it simplifies the process of election in totality.

[00:07:46] Now this is one end of the story. Now the next is what are the disadvantage of having

[00:07:55] one nation one election? What are the disadvantage? You see the first disadvantage is I vote for one

[00:08:04] particular political party and that political party starts thinking that they are non biological

[00:08:13] for instance. I mean I'm just giving you an example non biological they think they are God

[00:08:17] they think that everything is now under their control they are the supreme controller of this

[00:08:23] country. How do I teach him a lesson? How do I go back and tell this government a government who

[00:08:29] may not even listen to you how do you go back and tell the government no no no no what you

[00:08:33] are doing is wrong the way I have is to ensure that when my state election comes vote against

[00:08:38] him. Vote against that government that is the way I will show that government the central government

[00:08:43] that you were wrong your your governance in the center is not right that's the way I can show

[00:08:47] that's the advantage of having elections every year or possibly state elections different to

[00:08:53] the central election biggest advantage biggest advantage. The second advantage is a lot of

[00:09:03] political parties especially political parties that works the presidential style of election

[00:09:10] wherein you have one supreme leader who you present as a supreme leader as the ultimate

[00:09:15] leader once upon a time we had Indira Gandhi now of course we have our good prime minister Mr.

[00:09:21] Narendra Modi supreme leaders. See for these supreme leaders it is it is very easy to

[00:09:31] conduct all elections together you know why because I will tell you a consumer psych in this

[00:09:38] a consumer psych a consumer psych is that if you are buying a Sony television chances are

[00:09:45] the adapter that you will buy for that television will also be Sony. Multiple brands are not

[00:09:53] very easy for a consumer as consumer preference so there is a chance that if you are voting

[00:10:00] for congress or you are voting for Bharatiya Janata party for your national election or for your

[00:10:06] Lok Sabha election the chances are the next button that you press in your EVM machine

[00:10:11] for assembly election will also be congress or Bharatiya Janata party. It is very rare

[00:10:18] that you will press congress for Lok Sabha election and then go back same day same time

[00:10:25] and press Bharatiya Janata party for your assembly election it is it is not that easy it is rare

[00:10:35] from a consumer preference point of view it is rare. Ha! If you give gap if you give gap that

[00:10:44] means I today I press congress and I vote for congress and after one year one and half years

[00:10:50] if I have to vote for my state election I will then like I told you remember I

[00:10:53] congregant do well no so I am going to vote for BJP that happens but simultaneously

[00:10:59] it is very difficult that I have two minds and I you know

[00:11:03] Ha! Hota nahi hai in more often than not Ha! Hota nahi hai and especially in markets

[00:11:07] where the political understanding is not very entrenched in depth that is the point.

[00:11:16] So these people more often than not like I told you prefers one nation one election so that

[00:11:22] Modi wave and he captures everything in that wave. Tomorrow if there is Rahul Gandhi wave then Rahul

[00:11:29] Gandhi will capture everything in that wave. If there is a Arvind Kejival wave then he will

[00:11:33] capture everything if the Mamata Banji so that wave with that popularity they capture everything

[00:11:39] that is why some people some people who think they have that kind of popularity prefers one

[00:11:47] nation one election. Now the last thing I want to talk about

[00:11:54] the last thing is in fact most second last thing I want to talk about before I tell you the details

[00:11:58] of how actually this can be achieved this one nation one election can be achieved. The

[00:12:02] second last thing that I want to talk about is I wonder why is our government pushing for one

[00:12:09] nation one election by one election which is the Lok Sabha election they do it in seven

[00:12:15] phases and eight phases one general election that they have to do seven phases so then why add another

[00:12:23] Lok Sabha why add another assembly election phase why add load to the already loaded election

[00:12:31] commission because election commission is loaded that is why I mean loaded more work loaded of

[00:12:35] course election commission has got a lot of workload that is why they bifurcate the

[00:12:39] election in seven phases and eight phases and all of that otherwise they would have finished

[00:12:43] it in one or two phases but no they have in the seven phases and eight phases and all of that

[00:12:48] no if there it is so overloading you are also asking them to handle assembly election so

[00:12:55] will it actually help or harm the system that is a question I want to ask the government because

[00:13:01] that is what we have been seeing all this while so that question also needs to be answered now

[00:13:06] this is the pro and cons of one nation one election the last point which I want to make is

[00:13:17] the process in which you can do which is very important for my viewers to know the process

[00:13:22] in which you can make this entire one nation one election work is by amending the representation

[00:13:27] of people's act 1951 process one process two the bill must be passed in the parliament with

[00:13:35] two third majority that I am sure you know for that to become an act process three

[00:13:40] 50 percent of the state must pass the bill 50 percent of the state in India must pass the bill

[00:13:47] and process four five articles of the constitution must be amended which are those five articles

[00:13:53] the five articles are article 83 duration of the house of parliament article 85

[00:13:58] dissolution of Lok Sabha by the president article 172 duration of the state legislature article 174

[00:14:06] dissolution of the state legislature and article 356 imposition of presidents rule in states so

[00:14:13] you have to amend these five articles and you have to ensure that 50 percent of the states

[00:14:19] pass the bill pass the bill and create make this into an act and of course you yourself the

[00:14:24] the assembly the the Lok Sabha as to pass get the bill passed and amend the people representation

[00:14:31] act of 1951 amend that act and pass a new act only then pass a new bill so that it can be an

[00:14:38] act only then can this happen this is the long and short of one nation one election my last

[00:14:47] point my last point is it is always better that people have a choice to punish the government

[00:14:57] that they voted for if the government does not perform and the best form of punishment is to

[00:15:03] ensure that you are there in the center you remain in the center because we voted for you

[00:15:09] but I will show you that you are not doing well through my state election that is the best

[00:15:16] way for a common citizen a common voter whose vote today also doesn't matter

[00:15:22] whose vote today also doesn't matter because he may vote for some particular party that some

[00:15:27] particular party may tie up with another party and the that but the party may tie up with the

[00:15:31] fourth party and all the three put together would form a fifth party and then they form

[00:15:36] our government so my vote is that's the value of my vote today under this circumstances I would

[00:15:43] at least like to know and understand and be aware of that if the central government doesn't perform

[00:15:53] the way I wanted the central government to perform for which I gave the central government vote

[00:15:58] I have my assembly elections to teach them a lesson to tell them that listen you know what

[00:16:04] you're not doing well that right I will have this one point this one factor I think overrides

[00:16:12] every other factor in my mind this is my opinion please form your own and please let me also know

[00:16:19] there's one factor in my mind overrides all the other factors that to me would be true

[00:16:26] democracy till I see you next time let's tomorrow at 10

[00:16:30] namaskar

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